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Dear Flickr friends as artists I believe that it is our duty to encourage and promote peace, diversity, unity, understanding, tolerance, equality, love, friendship, diplomacy, encouragement, and support for everyone. We need to help one another, each and every one of us are important we need to drop discrimination and educate all of our children to love one another regardless of their race, gender, caste, age, sexual orientation, disability, or religion. Let's flood Flickr with positivity, love, and caring in 2021!
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75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
There must never be anything so horrible in human history!!!
As long as I live I will fight against racism, all kinds of discrimination and persecution.
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If we hate someone, we hate something in his image, which sits in ourselves. What is not in ourselves, this excited us not.
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
Hermann Hesse, Demian, The Collected Works Volume 5
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"When the war was over, the soldier came home. But he had no bread. Then he saw a man who had bread. He beat him dead / / You can not kill somebody, said the judge. / / Why not? asked the soldier."
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"All people have a sewing machine, a radio, a refrigerator and a telephone. What do we do now? Asked the factory owners . / / bombs , said the inventor . / / war , said the General . / / If there is no other way, said the factory owners. "
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"Oh, we were looking for you, God , in every ruin, every shell-hole, every night . We have called you God, we have yelled out for you, cried, cursed! Where were you then, dear God?"
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" Responsibility is not just a word , a chemical formula, is white human flesh transformed in the dark earth. We can not let people die for an empty word. Somewhere we must have our responsibility. The dead - not answer. God - not answer. But the survivors ask.
"When they tell tomorrow command , you should not water pipes and no pots to make more - but steel helmets and machine guns , then there is only one choice: Say NO! ".
Wolfgang Borchert, „Lesebuchgeschichten“, in: „Draußen vor der Tür“, (Outside the door) , ISBN 3-499-10170-X, 1956,
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The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm distinguishes between two types of hate:
Reactive Hate
It is always the result of a deep injury or a painful situation, it is powerless against, because they can not change on their own. Erich Fromm writes: "In reactive hate I mean a response that due to an attack on my life, my safety, my ideals, or to another person, whom I love and with whom I am identified.
Reactive hatred always presupposes that someone has a positive outlook on life to other people and ideals. Who is strong life-affirming, will react accordingly if his life is threatened."
Source: Wikipedia, German, Articles: Hate
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FIRST THEY CAME – BY PASTOR MARTIN NIEMÖLLER
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Source: www.hmd.org.uk
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Human nature... the survival instinct makes us selfish and even cruel at times.
We use categories to classify things and people we encounter... it's how our mental models are built...
And then we try to optimize these models by using stereotypes... it's a slippery slope and prejudice and abuse are on the ugly side of it.
Change starts from within, from one's own self... racism and other discrimination will not disappear unless we accept that stereotyping has limits... it will not disappear if we don't start to cooperate, change and evolve... and hopefully one day erase these stereotypes.
The discrimination and division that is currently practiced on the basis of lies makes me very, very sad.
Please do not forget that we all belong to humanity.
*Working Towards a Better World
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Love is the Force of Life & the World Cannot Be Without It
May love overcome all the hate and finally join us together so we may work as a worldwide team. We should tear down all the barriers, race, religious, sexual orientation and all discrimination it is time to live together in peace!!! We should and can make it happen!
As of today, people in Bavaria who do not have gene therapy substances administered to them are largely excluded from social life by the so-called 2G rule;
and this, although there is no difference to the syringe recipients in terms of transmissibility of the Covid-19 disease.
Some speak of 'vaccination apartheid' and discrimination -
some compare these rules (the exclusion of a group of people) with events in the period around 1938.
In my opinion, they are right.
All of whom embrace the international feeling with a gender equal world, a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion as quoted from IWD 2024
www.internationalwomensday.com
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A couple of summers ago, I witnessed the most meaningful ceremony I've ever seen. My friend G married her longtime love. And before I go on... a word about their love.
It's something you can feel when you walk into their house. It emanates... not just from them, but from the house itself... the furniture... the animals... the garden... the bric a brac. Entering that house is like walking into some big yellow-warm sunshine embrace; it is nothing short of palpable. And seeing them together is even more powerful.
These are two people who just so clearly delight in each other's company. Like all of us, they have their share of less than stellar days, but they're strong for each other, they support one another, they complement each other... and, like I said, when you see them together, you can't help but share a little hiccup in your heart... a skip-step of giddiness. In short, if ever two people should be married, G and her love were those two people. And they're both from backgrounds that value marriage; that see it as the highest expression of togetherness.
But there was one more factor at play that made their wedding the specialest occasion. Until that year, they had not had the legal right to marry. Why? Because G and her One True Love are women. To which I say... So fucking what??
Marriage, as I understand it, is all about love and commitment. And no two people were ever more in love or more committed.
And to those who argue same-sex marriage somehow undermines the so-called sanctity of the so-called institution of marriage... I say heterosexual couples... with their soaring divorce rates, and rampant infidelity, and vicious child-custody disputes... are doing that themselves.
Besides. Why should anyone's choice of who to love... or who to marry... be anyone else's business? As long as no one's being victimized, what's the problem?
One of the arguments advanced here in Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal (for the time being, anyway)... is that, if THIS is okay, then what's next? Polygamy?
To which I say... what's the hairy issue with polygamy? If three people (or four or five or whatever) choose to form a legal bond and raise their family collectively... again, as long as no one's being victimized... what is the problem?
Oh, say the critics, but polygamy's tied to child abuse. Uh, right. That's the same thing they say about same-sex unions... based on their ludicrous assumption that all homosexuals are somehow pedophiles, or sex fiends. Ridiculous.
I've heard otherwise rational men say... I'd never go to a gay male doctor.
To which I say.... don't flatter yourself. Just because a man may be in a love with another man, that doesn't mean he's uncontrollably flinging himself at every damned man who walks through the door. I mean... I have a straight male doctor. That means... oooooohhhh.... gasp.... he has sex with women!!!! But that has absolutely nothing to do with him examining me in his professional capacity.
We have a polygamist sect here in British Columbia, and it's under near-constant scrutiny for child abuse. The allegation is that very young girls are married off to men, against their will.
To which I say... if that's the case, it's child abuse, for sure. But it's an entirely separate issue from the marital status of the parents involved.
Sorry if I'm ranting here, but this whole issue gets my knickers in a major twist. I think it's because... as one of those kids who was teased and taunted for simply being who I was... I sort of understand what it must be like to face such senseless discrimination.
We have today, in too many parts of North America, a culture that says... while most other forms of organized hate and discrimination are frowned upon... it's okay to ostracize and mistreat people... solely on the basis of who they love.
It's insane. I mean... I remember when I first encountered boys. There was an instant ZING! From that time on, I pretty much always had a crush on some boy or other and... lucky me... I was part of a majority, so having those feelings was a-okay.
The gay and lesbian people I've talked to had similar experiences somewhere in their lives.... where they felt that overwhelming sense of attraction and excitement and curiosity. But... unlucky them, they were part of a minority, and made to think that what they felt was somehow bad or wrong.
I'm on this topic today because our federal government (recently elected and right wing) is threatening to undo the same-sex marriage law. This is just the latest in a string of reversals that's included:
- killing the nearly-enacted bill that would've decriminalized marijuana
- killing an agreement with aboriginal people that would've finally begun addressing the deplorable conditions many of them live in
- reversing the country's commitment to do its part to address climate change, and
- killing a multi-year agreement with the provinces that would've made child care somewhat more affordable and accessible.
In the government's eyes, child care is bad. I mean, everyone knows mommies should stay home with their babies while daddies work. Climate change is just a bunch of made-up garbage; after all, those scientists are all a bunch of liberals. Aboriginal people... notwithstanding the fact that white people stole their land, stuck them on reserves, legislated away their rights and tore a whole generation of children away from their families and communities... Notwithstanding that, "those people" are just lazy; they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. As for marijuana... well, we all know it's FAR more harmful than booze, which government not only endorses but shamelessly profits from. I mean... just look at all the domestic strife, and public brawls, and armed standoffs, and traffic carnage caused by those crazed, violent potheads. And those humsexuals... well. We can't deport them 'cause they're from here (darnit anyway). But we sure as hell owe it to the citizenry to make sure they're denied the most fundamental of human rights... the right to freely love.
I'm sorry if this is a downer but I'm sick at heart for my country today. I fear where we're going and I feel so helpless... watching our common sense progress slip away.
I guess I should just be glad that G and her One True Love are already married... and no one... not even right wing governments... can take what they have away from them.
Bloody costumes of crazy women with decapitated babies, psychopaths with axes who limp along and other monsters from the psychiatry fair populate our streets without age discrimination, in a revival of genre classics such as Stephen King's The Shining and other films. Stigma or stigmatization has been defined from the field of psychiatry as a social prejudice, which attributes to people with mental illness a set of bad qualities: all of them false stereotypes that turn them, in the eyes of society, into dangerous people who They should better be confined.
In reality, when Halloween arrives in my house we get sad hoping that these dates will pass soon so that they stop messing with us.
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With:
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KOKOS- TATTOO RAP-BOM @ GROUP GIFT
MOTH & MOON - Moth & Moon Jasper Kiss of Death EVOX skin @ Trick or Treat Lane 2023 GIFT Zibska for The Dark Style Fair Oct 2023** Zibska ~ Moros Lips
EXCY - Systm Pants @in main store
EXCY - [x] - Grim Sneakers / Fatpack @WEEKEND offers
TANAKA ESSENTIAL BANDAID @11th Annual Spookzilla Hunt
TANAKA - KATORI SWEATER @in main store
FANTAVATAR & MOONSTRUCK Taming Eye @ Trick or Treat Lane 2023 GIFT 2023
FNY FALLEN NEW YORK The Horror Asylumn Backdrop @ EXCLUSIVE for Cosmopolitan from Oct 16th
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I have a dream...
that one day the Pitbull Terrier will not be judged by the name of their breed but by the content of their character.
Breed discrimination; Just say NO!
.{PSYCHO:Byts}.Young Pitbull - White, Entice - My Dog & Me - Hippo, -[TWC]- Pitbull Mom tattoo.
100% of items to benefit animal rescues @ Rally to the Rescue Event (March 1st to 20th, 2017):
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Sessions Fae Skin (Skin Fair 2017).
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the little girl with red ribbon on hair watching cultural show from a distance..... her father is so poor that he can't take off from his business (selling handmade cone ice-cream ) when all people are enjoying the festival. but she wants to join the festival so he take her with him on the place of his business rather near the stage.
Captured from SUST' Sylhet in Pohela Boishak (Bangla New Year festival)
BATTLES over religious symbols in Britain continued when a Christian woman took on British Airways over her cross necklace and a Muslim teaching assistant defended her stance on wearing the veil.
The debate has amplified in the week since British leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw appealed to Muslim women to remove their veils to improve face-to-face communication and prevent separate cultures from taking root in Britain.
Rifts over the veil deepened at the weekend, as opposition politicians accused Muslim leaders of encouraging "voluntary apartheid" by forming closed societies.
The Conservative Party's shadow home secretary, David Davis, said Britain risked social and religious divisions so profound that society's very foundations, such as the freedom of speech, would be "corroded".
Britain's Race Minister also waded in, saying a 24-year-old Muslim teacher who refused to either remove her veil while teaching young children or to work with men, breached sex discrimination rules.
In this latest incident, the teacher, Aishah Azmi, was suspended after complaints from parents that their children could not understand her, especially as many had English as a second language.
The school principal that suspended Mrs Azmi reasoned she did not wear a veil when she was interviewed for the job and face-to-face communication was essential for teaching English as a bilingual support worker.
Mrs Azmi defended her veil as a moral necessity and said to deny her the self-respect and dignity it afforded was discriminatory against Muslim women.
The Sunday Mirror quoted Race and Faith Minister Phil Woolas as saying: "She should be sacked. She has put herself in a position where she can't do her job. She is denying the right of children to a full education … she is taking away the right of men to work in schools."
His comments came as about 60 Muslims demonstrated against Mr Straw, calling him a "Christian fascist".
Mr Straw had said the veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference", not required by Islamic faith.
As a matter of routine, he would ask his Blackburn constituents to show their face while in meetings with him.
Meanwhile, Christian groups were defending the "right" of a Heathrow airport check-in worker to display a necklace with a silver cross the size of a five-cent coin.
British Airways does not permit a cross to be visible, but allows Muslims and Sikhs to wear turbans, hijabs and religious bangles because they "cannot be concealed".
Nadia Eweida, 55, said she had been forced to take unpaid leave over the cross, which was a "silent witness" of her faith in Jesus.
The dispute arose a day after she attended the airline's "diversity training" that taught tolerance towards religions.
Stories of people wanting to protect or protest against a particular expression of faith inundate the British media every day.
A married mother in Rotherham, who had a contraceptive method fail, was aghast that a Muslim-owned pharmacy was allowed to cite religious beliefs in denying her the morning-after pill.
And the Royal Mail wrote an apology to a Muslim woman wanting to post a parcel after staff in Penwortham, Lancashire, refused to serve her unless she removed her veil.
the age.com
Most people don't realize that this is not just about working conditions...it's about learning conditions. The schools that have the chairs and desks that are falling apart, the lead in the water (a high number of public school drinking fountains tested), the roaches and the rats tend to be schools on the South and West sides where we have blighted neighborhoods and food deserts. Children learn very early on that there is no investment in them. Currently, our mayor would rather invest in more police in schools and in neighborhoods instead of in young human beings and that is unacceptable. This is true school to prison pipeline level of racial discrimination and it must stop!
This also filters down to abelism too. If you live in a neighboring district and you happen to have a child with a physical need, you can get top of the line equipment. In Chicago, you have to beg and beg and then you get dirty broken equipment that isn't safe that has literally been stored in a warehouse for decades. That is not OK!
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Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies :-)
― Suzy Kassem
HPPT!!
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Discrimination has come to have such negative connotations. When... really... it's a quality we couldn't live without. All things are not created equal. That includes us. And... really... it would be ridiculous to think that we... subjective creatures that we are... could feel the same about everyone and everything.
Discriminating simply means (or can simply mean) differentiating among different things. Is it bad to love apples and not pears? Is it wrong to prefer silk to polyester? Or chocolate to vanilla?
What about vertebrates over invertebrates? Or furry things over slippery ones? Or things with faces over things without faces? Or mammals or over insects?
I'll come clean. I discriminate against slugs, snails and caterpillars. Most other critters I can find redeeming qualities in. These guys? Ugh.
Although...
I've read that slugs are the only things that eat dog poop. And I guess that's a good thiing, considering the number of people in my neighbourhood who don't (grrrr) clean up after their dogs.
Um... go slugs go? And what about the snails? Surely they have some redeeming quality. Oh... I know. The shells.
But those are only good once the snails are dead. Meantime... sorry snail lovers... this photo totally makes me cringe.
Front page illustration for 7 Days, a children's newspaper.
It goes with an article about the violence against Jewish people:
there has been a recent growth of hate crimes in Holland, and especially Amsterdam apparently.
Jewish men are afraid to wear their Kippah since it seems to make them an easy target.
Very sad development and worrying given the fact that the Netherlands used to be very liberal.
Hence for example Amsterdam's nickname 'the Gay Capital".
Not any more though..
I was told to not make the boys on the left unrecognizable, to avoid stigmatization of yet another ethnic minority.
Still given the statistics that seems a little odd to me.
Genevieve performed in a class production of the Dr. Seuss book, "The Sneetches"--a child's lesson concerning discrimination (when she originally told me about the play, she said it was from a book by Theodor Geisel). Her parents gave her the traditional after-performance flowers.
Michael's shot of her during the play:
As the Moon and Sun, or Water and Oil cannot be Friends, now I know.............
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This is a poem I adore... ,
I dedicate this poem to my grandmother who died in a faraway country, but by my side
It was one of her favorite poems!
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"Life, death, death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised,
Life a short death until by Life we are surprised.
All Nature is taught in radiant ways to move,
All beings are in myself embraced.
O fiery boundless Heart of joy and love,
How art thou beating in a mortal’s breast !
It is Thy rapture flaming through my nerves
And all my cells and atoms thrill with Thee ;
My body thy vessel is and only serves
As a living wine-cup of Thy ecstasy.
I am a centre of Thy golden light
And I its vast and vague circumference,
Thou art my soul great, luminous and white
And Thine my mind and will and glowing sense.
Thy spirit’s infinite breath I feel in me;
My life is a throb of Thy eternity".
Sri Aurobindo
A bus stop advert and a view through a shop window brings these desires into one
image. Happy Valentine's
This is 2020 yet based on the recent events, it feels like it's the 1800s. As I have commented on some previous posts, there are many things that are wrong in our modern societies. What we saw happening in Minneapolis is not an isolated event. Throughout the years we've witnessed racial discrimination, we've seen people being mistreated based on the color of their skin. This issue is not political and as such racism should be condemned by everybody, no matter where they stand politically. I know that this is not a US thing only, however it feels like here it's happening more than anywhere else in the world. It feels like this society was built on "crooked" foundations. And maybe it was, as slavery played a key role, mostly on the Southern States, on how this country evolved through the years and became a world power. But this is not 1874, this is not a sugar plantation in Louisiana. We heard the words "I can't breath" in 2014 when Eric Garner was choked to death by a NYPD officer. 6 years later not much has changed. We heard the exact same words as George Floyd was suffocated by a Minneapolis PD officer. The names and the places don't matter, as history is repeating and innocent lives are lost. Sadly, in the name of these lives people are acting in a way that generates more hatred. Looting and setting Police Departments on fire is not the solution. It will only make things worse and inevitably, we will see more people die. When will this end?
Is this not a small world that we all live in? Much too small to waste room with hate, belief of superiority, or discrimination.
London, Ohio
It is so easy to say I love you or we love you. First of all we need to treat each other equal and we hope for the world of no discrimination.
It is my personal experience that I have seen people reacting so differently when you are NOT wearing a mask during this period of pandemic. In some other communities on the other hand I read on the news some people discriminate against people who are wearing masks and view the mask wearing people as sick persons.
There are so many reasons a person is wearing or not wearing a mask. And this should not be reason for you to treat them differently.
I may be framing the picture a little too tight. I want to remind that there are two persons in the scene. One wearing mask and another one does not.
Have a good Easter weekend!
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altered book spread "start" to be sent out for Library collaboration.
if u haven't got one yet- hang in there its a comin'...around the mountain when it comes
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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This is not my best protest photo but in a city where ICE is cracking down in force, I could not risk outing someone who could be put in a camp/deported just to put a more personal human element into a movement. There's a whole set of photos like that you can refer to if you really want. I'm not posting this because it's a good photo (it isn't) I'm posting this because it's a reminder that we all have a choice to say no to corruption and to say yes to human rights. We must do these both simultaneously and with every molecule in our body.
I wanted to talk a little bit about what is happening in America right now. If you did not already know, there have been even more for profit concentration camps set up for people who have come here fleeing persecution, seeking a better life. This is an abomination paid for by our tax dollars and many of our politicians are invested in these camps, making money to inevitably fund their next campaigns and the viciousness continues and profit over people continues to be the theme. We've lost our souls.
I don't know how to be more hopeful. The good people in this country, the 70% of us are being held hostage against our wills by a hostile treasonous fascist who literally doesn't even know they didn't have airports back in 1776, an idiot who couldn't pass preschool and yet, the fact that he is a serial rapist and a treasonous coward is even worse. He is an unforgivable murderer. If he truly represents America, all I have left instead of my patriotism is true horror for what this country has become.
These deaths are on our hands. Their blood is on our consciousness. It is a gift to receive an immigrant. And all these people who are pro death camps all happen to call themselves "pro life" It's laughable. They just merely want to control women's bodies.
Every day, I wake up a little more hopeless and helpless, I have to be honest. Over the last three years, I've been to protests downtown, in airports, I've called congresspeople in multiple states, donated money to progressives, signed too many petitions to count, done phone banking, and tried to be a genuinely kind person to all in my every day interactions.
Above all is the narrative stream in my mind, is the kindness enough? Is it? I don't know. I really don't know. Is kindness greater than greed, greater than all the blood money? Is it? Because people have been protesting since the 1960s for basic human rights, for an end to racial discrimination and for universal healthcare, for equal rights among the sexes and for the LGBTQ community, for an end to war and look where we are right now. It's hard to believe that anything any of us non billionaires do make a difference.
But I do know this and I believe this...they want us to be as complacent as possible, to get us numbed with constant breaking news, to gaslight us into believe that when Trump says he'd collude again that's totally fine and not surprising at all. They want us to stay at home, do nothing, turn on the tv, have a pint of whiskey to numb our pain-that sort of thing. That's what they are banking on. Whatever you do, live as a light in the darkness. If it makes no difference in the grand scheme, at least you tried.
But, I bet it will make a difference to someone.
**All photos are copyrighted.*
The artist says.
This portrait is based on a powerful photo by Future Hackney taken during the Black Lives Matter protests in London.
This mural will definitely stay for a while - a reminder that inequalities and injustices happen every day, tearing countless lives and families apart, and that the fight against racism and discriminations can never stop.
A chair is a very intimate index@of a human body. A sofa takes it further by suggesting a dialogue, an interaction. The piece of furniture that starts off witth inequality is particularly embarassing ;)
We're here visiting Damn, I 'm tired
Our daily challenge
(Im)perfect
The “I’m Tired” Project of Stork and the Beanstalk utilizes photography, the human body and written words as a tools highlight the lasting impact of everyday micro-aggressions, assumptions & stereotypes and pull back the layers of discrimination to reveal thoughts and feelings that aren’t usually voiced through fear of backlash and lack of being relatable.
Created by Paula Akpan + Harriet Evans.
Peaceful Pakistan
In the recent years Pakistan has become more and more famous for its unstable political and disastrous economical situation, for terrorism, inequality or discrimination i.e. against minorities. Nevertheless Pakistan is still one of the most beautiful and underestimated countries I have ever visited. I can ensure that not everyone in Pakistan is a terrorist or extremist nor is the country full of extremism or hatespeeches – as media illustrates or simplifies sometimes. The average Pakistani is a friendly person with whom you would like to talk and maybe drink a cup of Chai. The people I met were open minded and gave me always the opportunity to speak about problems and their daily life experiences. Pakistan has a lot of potential to grew, develop and prosper but there are still many problems to face, especially corruption or greedy politicians who do not care about their own nation but their moneybags.
I had a great time visiting the natural diversities of Pakistans landscape although I could not visit the Northern Areas of Pakistan like Karakoram or the Himalaya nor Balochistan in the West at the Irianian boarder. InshAllah the future will allow me to do so ;-)
Hereby some peaceful and personal impressions from my latest Pakistan trip in winter 2014/2015
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Only vaccinated people with a vaccination certificate are allowed to drink beer here. A negative test will not be accepted.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
- Clarence Thomas